In Rainbows
I just bought the new Radiohead album I'm dying to hear it. Here's the opening track. It's all clappy. Not crappy. Clappy
These are some
I've put the English-speaking ones below, and the Norwegian ones above.
Norwegian:
5080
Audun Lysbakken
Ø
Claws Talks
Rune Hjemås
Inger Merete Hobbelstad
Ali Esbati
Sigve Indregard
Eirik Newth
Martin Glaz Serup
*
English:
Glenn Greenwald
Paul Krugman
The Daily Dish
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Atrios
Bitch PhD
Brad DeLong
Crooked Timber
Crooks & Liars
Daily Kos
Edge of the American West
Hullabaloo
Ezra Klein
George Monbiot
Talking Points Memo
TalkLeft
Acephalous
BLDGBLOG
Boing Boing
Bookslut
Design Observer
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Jason Kottke
Making Light
Suttonhoo
Jill Walker
Zunguzungu
Norwegian:
5080
Audun Lysbakken
Ø
Claws Talks
Rune Hjemås
Inger Merete Hobbelstad
Ali Esbati
Sigve Indregard
Eirik Newth
Martin Glaz Serup
*
English:
Glenn Greenwald
Paul Krugman
The Daily Dish
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Atrios
Bitch PhD
Brad DeLong
Crooked Timber
Crooks & Liars
Daily Kos
Edge of the American West
Hullabaloo
Ezra Klein
George Monbiot
Talking Points Memo
TalkLeft
Acephalous
BLDGBLOG
Boing Boing
Bookslut
Design Observer
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Jason Kottke
Making Light
Suttonhoo
Jill Walker
Zunguzungu
7 Comments:
so how rude would I be if I asked what you opted to pay?
I love that part of the story -- that they're letting folks decide. I hope they eventually publish what the average expenditure was.
Not at all - I paid 8 pounds. I'm not a rich man, I'm afraid. But I'm sure the average will be over 5-6 pounds, which is more than enough for them to make a killing.
they'll make a killing either way because there are a lot of suckers out there who'll buy the full lp/artwork version for 40 quid (set price). like me. i'm sure they've had their accountants look into it.
Goodness, yes. With a fan base like that, there's no reason to go through the trouble of record companies. That ominous sound in the background of the record is the sound of dying label dinosaurs.
What's the difference between Radiohead and Piratforlaget? (Apart from the obvious difference in quality.)
That's a really interesting question, Jules. And I admit I had to stop and think about it for a second, but I think when you think about it, it's not that hard at all:
Piratforlaget is an attempt to get more money to the artist instead of the publishing house, yes. But there are two major differences.
1st.
The big difference between the international music industry and the publishing industry (in Norway, at least) is that the publishing industry takes its role as artistic production house first-and-foremost seriously. Encouraging authors in their artistic work is their first priority. The big record companies, OTOH, will far more often take active part in making music conform to lowest-common-denominator standards.
But even more important is the development of the last 7-8 years: it has become more important for the record companies to make money than to disseminate the work. Artists make money through concerts, not record sales. The most important function of records is a) as art b) as attention-getters for concerts. Any profit should be secondary.
I could easily live with a record industry which worked more like publishing houses, taking music and new media seriously, and therefore concentrating more on artistic development and distribution than profit. What the music industry of the future will offer us is first and foremost basically the same thing as publishing houses offer us today: editors and spreading the word/work.
There was supposed to be a "2nd" in there somewhere.
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